Feelings in the US Toward Poor and Working Class People
The feelings in general concerning the "working class" and "poor people" in the feeling thermometer data were of interest to me because the terminology we ascribe to class tends to be ambiguous. The possibility of overlap in these seemed high. Attitudes of people in general toward each group may reveal common threads between the groups.
Summary
Examining the violin plots of these feeling thermometers side-by-side shows us that there may be a generally more favorable feeling in the United States regarding "Working Class People." The feeling thermometer of the "Poor People" yielded more responses toward the middle. The correlation of feelings toward poor people and working class people is .51, which is a medium positive correlation. The scatter plot above details the correlation of responses. In reality, we do not know for sure that these feelings are related.
Kernel density plots are another way to show distributions like those displayed in the violin plots above.
Summary statistics of the feeling thermometer of "working class":
Min.
1st Qu.
Median
Mean
3rd Qu.
Max.
NA's
1.00
70.00
85.00
83.97
100.00
100.00
236
sd: 16.52
Summary statistics of the feeling thermometer of "poor people":
Well done, good clarity, comprehension, and ability to execute analyses--only issue really is that you're a little light on analysis here. You could have said more about the different numerical output, variability for instance. Good job though!
Quantitative Methods Mid-Term
Feelings in the US Toward Poor and Working Class People
The feelings in general concerning the "working class" and "poor people" in the feeling thermometer data were of interest to me because the terminology we ascribe to class tends to be ambiguous. The possibility of overlap in these seemed high. Attitudes of people in general toward each group may reveal common threads between the groups.
Summary
Examining the violin plots of these feeling thermometers side-by-side shows us that there may be a generally more favorable feeling in the United States regarding "Working Class People." The feeling thermometer of the "Poor People" yielded more responses toward the middle. The correlation of feelings toward poor people and working class people is .51, which is a medium positive correlation. The scatter plot above details the correlation of responses. In reality, we do not know for sure that these feelings are related.
Summary statistics of the feeling thermometer of "working class":
Summary statistics of the feeling thermometer of "poor people":
The code I used for the graphs.
Well done, good clarity, comprehension, and ability to execute analyses--only issue really is that you're a little light on analysis here. You could have said more about the different numerical output, variability for instance. Good job though!
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